What they saw made their eyes go red from rage!
Who was that damn dog?!
How dare it be so close with their master?!
Master, don't be tricked by it's innocent appearance, it must be scheming to replace us! Don't be tricked!
Master, why do you let him travel with you but not us?!
And who is that stranger with you?!
Why are you so close to him?!
You are a loner who only has us, the Light Phantom Sect and four, five if you count Huang Qian Yang, friends, since when did you get so close to someone?!
They had never seen Zi Hua be close to someone who wasn't a sly siscon (Anqi Qing Shan), delinquent ojou-sama (Anqi Feng), cross dresser (Tang Zen Zen), black hole foodie (Xue Lian), love-struck fool (Huang Qian Yang), subordinate (Light Phantom Sect), cute shota (Xing Wu Xun) Sadistic Sovereign (Supreme Sovereign/Zi Hua's master) or them (the three whom she had brought up from babies)! (A/N: Do you all like the beautiful array of nicknames that I had given?)
Who was this dude who seemed to be normal, apart from maybe being a bit clueless and slow-witted at times?!
Bruh, are you one of the listed characters? If no, better get the hell outta here and leave the chat!
The three were fuming! Absolutely fuming!
You could practically see the steam rising from their heads, but it wasn't from embarrassment like that Lovey-dovey couple who they were all so done with, but from outrage.
However, they were in the midst of a cold war with their master right now, the first to give in would be the one to lose, for the sake of their master understanding their point they must not take the initiative to approach her for any form of compromising! Plus they were technically under house arrest and couldn't leave since their master said they can't follow her.
But what if that damn dog take their place in this period of time! T~T
What gives it the right you be with THEIR master!?
Noo, master, do not be tricked!
The three were stuck in the struggle of making decisions...
Meanwhile, whilst the three were stuck in their internal battle, Zi Hua and He Li accompanied by Xiao Sha treaded through the desert.
Xiao Sha didn't make a racket and was very sensible, it obediently followed the two whilst wagging its tail joyfully.
It was a spirit beast that lived in the desert so it didn't need much water to survive and its fur was thin so it didn't get too hot, but the fur was also very fluffy.
The spirit beast was very naive, Zi Hua found it to be an oddball, Saint ranked spirit beasts should have rather high intelligence, but Xiao Sha seemed to be no different than a child.
Zi Hua had looked for the reason during their breaks and found a scar on its head, it seemed to be a scar from when it was young, which appeared to be the reason for its child-like intelligence.
Spirit beasts have excellent healing ability, but low level ones don't, so the scar could only be explained as an injury during childhood.
The injury must've been very serious, upon further examination Zi Hua was surprised that it was alive today, normally, if a spirit beast got that degree of injury they would've died, especially in this kind of harsh environment, but Xiao Sha had miraculously managed to survive.
However, due to the injury having been too serious and long ago, Zi Hua was powerless to help Xiao Sha, though there was the chance that he may recover his memory anyways when he ascends to Celestial rank and acquire a humanoid body.
Zi Hua liked how innocent and naive he was now anyways.